Example sentences of "no other [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me , too , of the mines , and how some of the young boys were terrified of going down the pit for the first time , but had to go , as there was no other work for them ; and how at first they had been put to work beside their father , loading the coal he cut , until they had overcome their fear . |
| 2 | What on earth was she supposed to wear for this evening with Dane — this evening that was n't exactly a date , yet she could think of no other description for it ? |
| 3 | We can agree with him therefore that the Pioneers were wrong in their view that the abolition of workers ' rights , expressed as a bonus to labour , was a misdirection of the Movement — but wrong only because there was then no other direction for it to take . |
| 4 | Most people find that once they have owned one there is no other breed for them , ’ said Alicia . |
| 5 | But he is a pillock , he 's I mean she , Catherine right his cous Russell 's cousin she 's really pretty , she 's rea she 's got a lovely skinny figure , everything and he 's just a pillock , there 's no other word for him . |
| 6 | There is no other word for them . |
| 7 | As you probably know , Margaret perpetrated a huge fraud , I mean , there 's no other word for what she did . |
| 8 | All the tortured expressions that register on the face while the body is in the throes of an aerobic workout , so the theory runs , end up by leaving their mark in the form of — there 's no other word for it — wrinkles . |
| 9 | My first sight of it , and to a slightly lesser extent every subsequent sighting , was breathtaking — no other word for it . |
| 10 | Really there was no other word for it , though only he or Mervyn could have said it . |
| 11 | The restaurant has been turned back into a house — little expense spared and the quality of work by the local joiner is superb , no other word for it . |
| 12 | Ken may have been well into his thirties now , but he still saw things very much as he did as a youngster , as though the editor he had played in The Buccaneer had been reincarnated into the Kenneth Williams starring — and now there was no other word for it ; that was precisely what he was doing — in Share My Lettuce . |
| 13 | It was used , no other word for it . |
| 14 | It is it 's dirty , there 's no other word for it . |
| 15 | No other word for it . |
| 16 | A case might be made for this ( although there is no other evidence for it ) and so substantive interference in Ulpian 's text could be taken to be limited to generalization or to the addition of per omnia . |
| 17 | The difference between the studies may be explained by the fact that we adopted more stringent criteria for assessing H pylori state and also assessed gastric function only in H pylori negative patients with DU who had no other explanation for their ulcer disease . |
| 18 | There can be no other explanation for his asinine letter berating the formation of the Association of British Drivers ( ABD ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Theda , there is no other future for us , you must see that . |
| 20 | Increasingly candidates thought able enough were entered for O and even A levels ( and rightly , because there was at first no other examination for them to take ) and when the CSE examination was introduced for those thought not to be up to O level , the top grade of CSE was soon deemed to count as an O level , and thus itself to aspire to the academic . |
| 21 | If the order goes ahead we take material A out of stock and since we have no other use for it we will not replace it — no cash flow . |
| 22 | no other solution for it . |
| 23 | Money acts as pure directed purpose , since there is no other reason for its existence except as a medium through which ends may be accomplished . |
| 24 | There is no other reason for their attraction to each other . |
| 25 | ’ She could think of no other reason for his appearance . |
| 26 | Her father was the greatest actor-manager since Irving ; she was proud to be taught by him , would as proudly appear in a part which left him , the great Asshe , with no other place for himself than that of Lord Capulet . |
| 27 | Sexually coarse — no other term for it — sexually coarse laughter sounded from the region of the raspberry canes , on the other side of the goldfish pool . |